headspace

headspace

[′hed‚spās]

(ordnance)

Distance between the face of the locked bolt or breechblock of a gun and some specified point in the chamber; in guns using rimless bottlenecked cartridges, the space between the boltface and a specified point on the shoulder of the cartridge.

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